However, one gotcha is that we can’t do Cloud Serving from ‘asia-east1’, so the Region should be ‘asia-northeast1’

That is to say : We need a “Training” Region - and one that also allows “Online prediction”

Pick a Zone from the previous list : ‘asia-northeast1-b’

Set the zone using the console interface :

$ datalab create babyweight --zone asia-northeast1-b
Creating the network datalab-network
Creating the firewall rule datalab-network-allow-ssh
Creating the disk babyweight-pd
Creating the repository datalab-notebooks
Creating the instance babyweight
Created [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/qwiklabs-gcp-84f8f1c4f27f96a8/zones/asia-east1-b/instances/babyweight].
Connecting to babyweight.
This will create an SSH tunnel and may prompt you to create an rsa key pair. To manage these keys, see https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/adding
-removing-ssh-keys
Waiting for Datalab to be reachable at http://localhost:8081/
This tool needs to create the directory
[/home/google646468_student/.ssh] before being able to generate SSH keys.
Do you want to continue(Y/n)?

This looks a lot more promising.

“You will get a SSH warning. Click Y to continue, and Enter through the passphrase questions. Datalab is ready when you see a message prompting you to use Web Preview to start using Datalab.”